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Threatening to rain this morning as we set off but we had confidence that our luck with weather would hold :). We drove through the walled town of Conwy and saw the castle in it's estuary setting. We plan to visit there tomorrow. Judy drove us through the mountains to the Pontyscyllite Aquaduct. Unfortunately we couldn't see the mountains because of the mist and low-lying cloud, and when we arrived at the aquaduct it actually rained, albeit lightly, and I ...

... of Llanberis and (lake) Llyn Padarn. The rain had stopped and the view was lovely of the village and surrounding mountains. Of course Mt Snowdon was still hiding under low cloud. At lunchtime we headed to Penrhyn Castle about half an hour away. Penrhyn Castle is a country house in the form of a Norman castle. It is owned by The National Trust and is the third largest property that it manages. The castle was only used as a country retreat by ...

... sorry for those families that had just arrived in Manchester from a long flight to find they had to wait a long time to get their hire car. We had booked an Astra and were pleasantly surprised to find we had a diesel Peugeot. The seats are very comfortable and once we got used to driving a manual transmission again, it was a good little car. We brought along our own GPS and after we had changed the settings to miles instead of kilometres, our Aussie ...

Met our tour guide Judy and set off to Bangor Pier. It's a traditional British pier with views over to Anglesey, towards the Irish Sea one way and the Menai suspension bridge the other way. Then we travelled over the Menai Bridge to Anglesey and headed for Penmon, where there is a priory dating from the 14th century, but built on sacred sites from pagan Celt times. There we saw the holy well, a very peaceful ...

As promised Linda our hostess arrived at 7.30 with a huge cooked breakfast. There was as she had said more than we could possibly eat and so we made bacon sandwiches and sausage sandwiches which did for lunch and later an evening meal (albeit augmented by a celebratory drink at Prestatyn). Happily we were driven back to the path by David our host and so there was no need to retrace our steps ...